**The eighteenth mystery in the *New York Times* bestselling Parisian detective series!** A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment
Murder on the Left Bank
β Scribed by Cara Black
- Publisher
- Soho Press;Soho Crime
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1616959282
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β¦ Synopsis
The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series!
A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confessionβhe's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc, Paris's chief prosecuting attorney, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc, Besson's courierβhis assistant and nephewβis murdered, and the notebook disappears.
Grief-stricken Eric Besson tries to hire private investigator AimΓ©e Leduc to find the notebook, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop, and was murdered by the same...
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